The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS,

Five Thousand Dollars in Confederate
Money Sold for ST. so at Macon "A
Macon Man the Loser of the Fifteen
$1,000 Certificates in New York-A
Second Crop of Cotton.
GEORGIA.
The Hephzi Baptist Association, la its
ninety second anniversary, is now in session
in Hephzibah.
Coal is being extensively used in Elber-
ton now and wood is almost dispensed with
except for cooking purposes.
Work has been begun on the Baptist
church, at Wrightsville, and the prospects
now are that the building will soon be COM
pleted.
Five thousand dollars in Confederate
money brought 81 so at Macon Wednesday,
1t was fished up from forgotten depths by
Col. Alex. Goode.
Waterman Abel, of Macon, has con-
tract for furnishing 200 rats for the owner
of valuable rafting dog. who will have a
rat killing time at the fair.
Last week Mr.. H. S. Dutton, Of Bulloch
county, arose in the morning and found his
wife lying beside him dead. She apparent
~ seemed to be in good health the day be-
fore.
j. p. johnson, of Chattooga county has
a pig born with only three legs, there being
no shoulderblade on the left side or other
indication that leg was ever intended to
grow there.
A Rabun county man was in GAINESVILLE
last week who had never been in a town
larger than GAINESVILLE, and had never seen
train of cars. He was going down to the
exposition, and no doubt had good time.
A lady of Washington has the table on
which President Davis and his Cabinet took
their last dinner in Richmond. She also
has some of the chairs and tableware used
on that occasion. Thea' and the tableware
will be exhibited at the fair.
The merchants get some queer orders
Wednesday, johnson IL Lane, hardware
dealers, of Macon, received the following
from Blakely: "Please send me a sample of
your winter clothing, and the price of meat
and coffee and the price of your pistols and
all hardware"
E. NJ. Beckham, postal clerk on the Grit
fin and Columbus railroad postoffice, stood
his first examination on Saturday handling
620 cards in twenty-three minutes, making
but one error, and an average of So. He
made this record after running 1873 miles,
married the prettiest girl in Georgia on
Sunday night, and resumed his regular run
on Monday morning
George W. Jordan, Jr., of Longstreet,
had his portable saw mill consumed by fire
late last Saturday evening. The mill was
two or three miles from his residence. The
fire broke out in pile of dry lumber, and
its progress could not be arrested. The loss
will ap proximate $1,000. There is no in
surance- Mr.. Jordan was working some of
the county chaingang.
Brunswick Breeze: With an annual over
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia,
with our pockets full of passes for both the
Piedmont and Georgia State Fair, and with
hotels in both Macon and Atlanta owing us
more than any possible damage we could do
them we could have taken in both the Pied
mont Exposition and Georgia State Fair
without necessarily expanding cent, but
have found it impossible to leave our post.
A day or two since pet dog on the prem
ises of Mrs. G. b. Dettre at Macon acct
dentaliy fell in the well on the lot. To get
him out was a puzzle, until some one sug-
gested tying tub on the end of a rope,
which was done and the dog brought to the
surface. Afterward an old negro went
down into the well for the purpose Of clean
ing it out, but his partner going off and
leaving him. the ladies were compelled to
pull HIM out.
The present feeling in real estate circles
at Augusta is characterized by an uniform
and steady demand for eligible property in
all parts of the city. An especially good
demand for improved residence property.
ranging from 900 to 5000 has been
noticeable, and many of the buyers are
strangers or recent acquisitions to the
population. The same class of buyers are
investing also in suburban property by way
of speculation.
on bottom lands, which was overfowed and
destroyed during the big freshet in August
last, has since put out new sprouts and is
now full of green bolls from the size of a
partridge egg down to that of a bullet, 1t
is thought that if there is no killing frost
until the middle of November, that some
cotton will yet be made on these places. 1t
will be of an inferior quality as it is too
late for cotton to make good lint.
At Cochran last Friday night, while the
family of D. c. Walker were all at church
except Mrs. Walker and her son John, about
ii years old, negro man was seen by John,
who was in the yard, at one of the windows
attempting to raise it. John slipped around
and got into his mothers room from the
front of the house, and not letting her
know anything stole pistol out of the bu-
reau drawer and crept around the corner of
the house and fired couple of shots at the
intruder. 1t is believed that the fugitive
was wounded.
The Daily Journal is the name of hand
son1ely printed and newsy newspaper that
has recently made its appearance in Bruins
wick, under the management of Mr.. A. e.
Sholes. IL is quite a venture in city the
size of our neighbor that has already two
dailies. Tho Journal, however, if kept up
to the standard of the numbers already
issued, will be a valuable adjunct to the
growth of Brunswick, and those who have
either business or property interests in that
city will find that money spent in support
ing a newspaper of the class of this new
candidate for their patronage will be good
investment.
The public school of Manatee opened at
tle Academy with seventy-ive pupils, Prof
R,smsey, Principal; the Braidentown school
18th thirty-five, Prof. Taylor Lee, Prnci-
pal; the Williamsonberg Academy with
thirty-fiv Prof. B. G. Nichols, PRINCIPAL
This is pretty good educational showing
for this particular portion of Manatea coun-
ty, AS pupils within a radius of four miles
There are forty schools in the county, about
600 average attendance of pupils. and the
schools will be run five months the present
school year. Teachers salaries are on
basis of $50 per month for an average at
tendance of ten to fifteen pupils, and 81 25
per capita for each pupil above the fifteen
Mrs Kemp, whose husband is farming
for r. j. Anderson, of Macon, on his planta-
ton near Cochran, was in his yard attend
ing to some domestic affairs on Saturday
afternoon and heard the report of a pistol,
and instantly heard the whiz of bullet
fasSnc near her Earinp +ha diractio,, of